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Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Burning Association. I'm Nate Swick. It's the last week of October. That means it's time for our spooky edition of

this month in birding, where every bird mentioned will have a spooky name like great blue

scarin or mountain boo bird. And actually that is way too much work for this episode. So I'm not

going to do

that because I'm already running out of names oh Canada ghouls does that do anything

for you all right now I'm done it's this month I'm birding I'll keep this part short

because the meat of the episode is the panel consisting this month of Jenny Duberstein

Nicole Jackson and Sean Mills. What a great crew,

and so scary in their knowledge and passion for birds and birding. They'll be with you

after this week's scarebirds. I mean, rarebirds. This is your rare bird focus for the last week of October 2021.

It's been a weird rarebird year with stellar sea eagle in Texas and Incuterns in Hawaii,

but we might have a new leader for the most unusual bird of the year in Quebec,

where a lessons seed eater was photographed at, and please forgive my French pronunciation.

Pont A. Ottard.

Nate, that would be pointos utard.

Lesson's seed eater is a highly migratory, long-distance, austral migrant that breeds in central

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